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Medicaid that would hit the disabled and people in nursing homes? >> i certainly respect the senator. i think having worked with thousands of medicaid patients is that i would say medicaid is broken. one out of three physicians no longer accept medicaid. its so broken throwing money at it is not going to fix it. >> what does this bill do to fix it? >> not enough. theres so many things that need to go beyond this bill to fix the people that have low coverage. right now medicaid is not working. we...

Both are broke sben need to be fixed. this bill cannot fix all the problems but itll be the first step to fixing it. i cant wait to get the bill done and move forward. >> i understand you support the bill, but respectfully the question im asking, do you have the perception and read that this is getting less popular as it gets more exposure and why no hearing. >> no, i dont think its getting loss poplar. i think the senate is where it was when we came to the first vote. every day that goes by our...

Youre in a republican primary you want to come up with a reason for that from the right rather than the left? >> i think most of the -- especially mike lee and if ben sass for instance is to come out and say hes against back sawi hes against it, i think they are going to approach it in the right and theyre going to say that this is not a bill that moves in the correct direction. it doesnt address the issues that we have in terms of health care. truce and others have said this is the right point ...

Constituen constituents during the delayed vote and at least 33 people ared on capitol hill, this was by mid afternoon today. >> kill the bill, dont kill us. kill the bill, dont kill us. >> that is the lobby of the heart senate prubl republican office building. so what is the senate response to this pressure? im about to speak to a republican congressman who backs this health care bill and says it is past time for repeal. stay with us. ant do something, it makes me feel isolated. with aleve, you...

A better cost split and share with the states. i expect changes to be made. lets see how it develops. but i appreciate how theyve worked with me as govern or. >> are they going to vote yes? >> well, i dont know that thee even know what the final product is. so ill let them speak to that and people who want governors and others to take a final position on it, my job is to articulate the impact that it would have in arkansas. right now its a cost shift that is difficult for us. it needs to be adju...

Was someone who was a maybe on the first draft, seemed to be coming around on this draft of the bill, whose told me he heard new analysis on the medicaid portion of this that makes him less sure of it than he was to go home for the weekend. so every day that mitch mcconnell doesnt get 50 hard yes, sirs it gets a little bit harder to rang elthis. and right now those rose arent clicking into place. thats not to say that it wont, but it doesnt appear that anything that happened today has changed th...

Steward of the state of arkansas, what do you want to see for your people? >> im answering your question. as the bill stands right now, its too great of a cost shift to the states. that needs to be adjusted. well work with them to create savings in terms of the federal government because we need to have savings. give us the flexibility we can do it, but right now it is too great of a cost shift that im looking at. >> governor asa hutchinson of arkansas. sir, thank you very much for joining us. >...

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Susan collins opposes from the center. >> for all the republicans complaint from about the death spiral of obamacare. >> this bill would impose fundamental sweeping changes in the medicaid program, and those include very deep cuts. that would affect some of the most vulnerable people in our society. >> without paul and collins, senate republican leader mitch mcconnell needs the rest of the caucus 50 members to vote yes to simply begin the is debate on the bill. and that is not a sure bet yet. jo...

-- that its not really sustainable for a long time. >> are you saying those people that are on the medicaid expansion right now arent working? >> no. were saying that we want -- some of them arent working. we want to put a work requirement in. i think its about 60% that are working, but some of its not a matter of just working. its not training. do they have the job skills to get the job and move up the economic ladder. we want to be able to provide that training. so its the assistance. we dont ...